GENERAL elections could look quite different across Oxfordshire in the near future, as proposals for the new areas MPs would represent have been published. The Boundary Commission has drawn up plans for new parliamentary constituencies across England to reflect the fact that the population is growing in the south of the country and shrinking in some parts of the north. Each constituency is by law meant to have between 69,724 and 77,062 residents under the representation of a single MP. In Oxfordshire, the changes, if agreed, would mean Layla Moran, not Anneliese Dodds, would represent Oxford City Centre as is currently the case if they were both elected at a general election using the new boundaries.
The Horton Hospital in Banbury THE mention of Tory MP Victoria Prentis during a call for support for the Horton hospital stopped some councillors from voting for it. Oxfordshire county councillors were asked by Conservative Eddie Reeves to support his motion to do everything they could to deliver an improved facility on the hospital’s existing site or at a new and improved one within the Banbury area that is accessible to residents across the Horton’s unique four-county catchment area . But the motion also acknowledged the work of other groups and people in the fight to save services at the Banbury hospital, including a mention of the local Conservative MP Victoria Prentis.